[ZWeb] wiki.zope.org news 2007/3/27

[Simon Michael]

Hi all,

Fred Drake made a nice, very crisp style for the ZPT wiki, and I've 
installed it as the default for the zope wikis (the zope3 wiki's style is 
as before). See what you think.

I simplified and ramcached the index at http://wiki.zope.org and added a 
last edit date. Aside from the big two (zope2 and zope3) some of the other 
wikis are receiving some love, such as the ZPT wiki (Fred) and the ZODB 
wiki (Christian Theune).

I've been making progress on the various server instability issues. There 
have been more wiki and subscriber mail delivery outages (sorry!) but 
things feel pretty solid *now*, the two open problems being general 
slowness and a 17-minute restart once a day or so. Recent changes include:

- more watchdog scripts to monitor and correct various failure scenarios
- replaced qmail with a more straightforward postfix setup
- switched to MailDropHost for zope mail sending
- disabled http conditional get handling for now (for firefox users)

Meanwhile, Martijn Faassen and Bas van der Linden at Amaze have today 
hooked me up with a new server which so far is looking great - many thanks! 
This should lead to a more community-centric setup. I'll be testing there 
over the next days.

Best,
-Simon

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